It's time to lay that 'time' myth to rest. Preparing a full meal will not take more than 15 minutes actual work, and maybe the same amount of time waiting for stuff to cook. Once you are getting proficient in preparing food, you'll learn which tasks can be parallelised. If you take more than 30 minutes for a basic dinner, you're just not doing it right.
And as for grocery shopping: learn your ingredients. Once you know how long things will keep, you can buy more in one go. A fresh head of lettuce will keep for a week refrigerated. Cabbage even longer, and a fresh head of cabbage will give you about 8 servings. Potatoes, if kept in the dark, will keep for literally months. The only problematic ingredient is meat. Refrigerated fresh pork will keep 2 days at most, fresh beef a day or two more, chicken less (watch out for the salmonella!). Slightly processed meat, like sausage, will keep slightly longer (add a day). So most of your grocery shopping will be meat and other perishables. If you're willing to sacrifice a little taste, freeze the stuff.
So stop making excuses already. There is no excuse for not eating fresh food; learn to cook.
Agree on this one. I got into a heavy training regimen for European Martial Arts (basically 14th century sword fencing), and 3 hours of intensive training dropped my waistline two full sizes in two months. But more importantly, I'm having fun. I'm not doing this for the weight loss, as I was only mildly overweight to begin with.
Good one on the sugar. Likewise with salt. Both have a habituating effect. Me, I grew up on a low-salt regimen (nothing medical, just that mom disliked salty foods), and I can definitely say that most processed foods carry way too much salt. I have no particular like for sweet food either, and therefore I avoid most snack foods, as they're either too sweet or too salty. Yet people look at me strangely when I say so. I can only conclude that this is because they have become habituated to sweet and/or salty food.
Asian diets tend to be strong in spices, which have low nutritional value, but add a lot of taste; the European equivalent is Mediterrannean cuisine, which is also high on spices and low on salt and sugar, and likewise known for its positive effect on weight.
In terms of their physiological effect, sugar and salt are bad. Salt retains water, which makes you heavier, and sugar is a very efficient fuel that must be burned off, lest it gets converted into fat for long-term storage. As with all foodstuffs, in moderation they are essential, but modern Western food contains way more than is necessary.
Heh. Same here. I was mildly overweight, around 90kg at 1m80, and I rapidly dropped some 7-8 kg due to personal stress, which brought down my appetite. Then I started doing some serious exercise, and my waist size kept dropping; it went from a tight 52 to a 48 (jeans waist 34" to a 31"), yet I gained around 4 kg.
As much as it pains me to admit as a cat person, but you'd be better of with smarter dogs. More precisely, terriers.
Cats are lousy ratters. A cornered rat will fight, which goes against the basic instinct of most cat breeds. A cat expects an animal in the general shape of a rat to freeze in fear, like a mouse does. Terriers on the other hand are bred to hunt and fight aggressive prey like rats and bigger.
Smarter cats will just lead to accelerating the coming of our feline overlords, reducing us to the role of mobile can openers.
If you persist in proclaiming things while obviously not having researched them, why should I be nice to you? You are spouting off without knowledge.
If you don't see the difference between EU directives and national laws, and you are too arsed to do some research, or even ask the question, you deserve all the invective you get.
A very good example, that. That $20 DSP does nothing but a brute force search on certain sound patterns. This is not in any way similar to how humans process speech.
I am not in the camp that says humans have a certain ineffable something that computers can never replicate, but using brute force pattern matching is not the way to find out just how human perception works and reimplementing it in a machine. Chess, BTW, is an example of the opposite: even humans do a brute force search down the decision tree. Sometimes they're trained enough to prune the tree quickly, but that is no different from the common algorithms currently in use.
As Douglas Hofstadter puts it, the most interesting things happen in those 100ms between seeing a picture of your mother and going 'Mom!', and we're nowhere near understanding that problem space enough to implement it in AI. At least, we weren't a couple of years back. I haven't kept up with current developments though.
No it can't. You didn't read what I wrote, and you don't understand how the EU works. The EU does not pass laws. It is a treaty organisation, and in this context it is the member states that pass the laws. In fact, the most the EU can do is pass Directives, which the member states must implement as laws, in keeping with the various EU treaties.
And as I said, most member states have a justice system that demands warrants before wiretapping, which is in keeping with article 8 of the ECHR. In fact, in Germany the Constitutional Court already struck down invasive investigation procedures and affirmed the citizens' right to privacy. In further fact, given the stance of the European Court of Human Rights, it is quite conceivable that warrantless wiretapping would be struck down as against the ECHR if a member state tried to implement it, should it survive a constitutional challenge internally (or in case of the Netherlands, it is impossible to challenge laws on their constitutionality).
In this political climate, authoritarians don't look at the EU. They prefer to put their money on pliant judges as their rubber stamp. And unfortunately, apart from the guys in Karlsruhe, there are plenty of those judges around.
Read up on how the EU works, and read some of the decisions of the Court of Human Rights, before you spout off, okay?
The EU Charter of Rights has no requirement for the general government to obtain a warrant.
Don't be disingenuous. Article 8 states that privacy shall not be infringed except as provided by law, for specific purposes only (among them fighting crime).
The exact formulation of the law is not the remit of the EU, but up to the member states. And given that most of these are representative democracies building on the same philosophers as your precious Founding Fathers, it is no coincidence that in fact, the law in almost all member states requires for warrants to be issued before wiretaps can go through.
Now, that some judges just rubberstamp everything the police holds in front of them, that is a different matter. But in that we're no different from the U.S. with it's Executive-lapdog FISA court.
So to summarize your position: you object to people (the government) forcing you to pay for a service, but you expect other people to provide you with a service for free.
Then WTF is Ubuntu doing? Or what are you doing? I have had 64-bit Flash support in Debian for almost a year now. Ubuntu has had two releases to get in sync with their base distro.
Serious competition? You Apple fanbois get more ridiculous with every JesusPhone story on Slashdot. Even the most optimistic numbers for Apple have Nokia selling almost 5 smartphones for every iPhone sold (source: Gartner).
All out system crashes may have become rare, but niggling little subsystem crashes that can really make your day on a Windows platform hell still persist. One I personally meet every day, at least twice, is the rdpclip process mysteriously not passing clipboard data out of or into a Terminal Server session anymore.
To say nothing of profile corruption, which still occurs, despite the promise at the release of XP that it would be a thing of the past. And how a corrupt profile can disable acceleration on my video card still baffles me.
Some Windows users take an enormous amount of shit in stride, yet scream bloody murder at every minor issue in a Linux distribution. It puzzles me.
Here's your dogma for you: at work I got a Dell Latitude D820 with nVidia graphics. I use this laptop quite a bit in the field, so good ACPI support, including S2RAM, was almost mandatory. Imagine my surprise when I read the Release Notes for the nVidia binary blob driver: in order to have working power management, I had to run it on a uniprocessor kernel. That's right, nVidia wanted me to disregard half my CPU just because they can't be arsed to implement power management decently. And can the kernel devs fix this issue? What do you think?
I was glad a colleague who was using an Intel-powered D820 left. I immediately claimed his laptop, and I have been using it without any problems (at least in ACPI space) for nearly 2 years now. Yeah, a GM965 won't run many games. So what? That's only important to the l33t kiddies anyhow.
So no, wanting Free drivers is not dogma. It is pragmatism.
Erm, I think it is actually the other way around. Look at secure authentication over a network: which project was purely academic, and which project was a typical EU endeavour? And which project is currently in active practical use?
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His son takes over. And he is just as bad. Welcome to the rule of our new aristocracy.
It's time to lay that 'time' myth to rest. Preparing a full meal will not take more than 15 minutes actual work, and maybe the same amount of time waiting for stuff to cook. Once you are getting proficient in preparing food, you'll learn which tasks can be parallelised. If you take more than 30 minutes for a basic dinner, you're just not doing it right.
And as for grocery shopping: learn your ingredients. Once you know how long things will keep, you can buy more in one go. A fresh head of lettuce will keep for a week refrigerated. Cabbage even longer, and a fresh head of cabbage will give you about 8 servings. Potatoes, if kept in the dark, will keep for literally months. The only problematic ingredient is meat. Refrigerated fresh pork will keep 2 days at most, fresh beef a day or two more, chicken less (watch out for the salmonella!). Slightly processed meat, like sausage, will keep slightly longer (add a day). So most of your grocery shopping will be meat and other perishables. If you're willing to sacrifice a little taste, freeze the stuff.
So stop making excuses already. There is no excuse for not eating fresh food; learn to cook.
Mart
Agree on this one. I got into a heavy training regimen for European Martial Arts (basically 14th century sword fencing), and 3 hours of intensive training dropped my waistline two full sizes in two months. But more importantly, I'm having fun. I'm not doing this for the weight loss, as I was only mildly overweight to begin with.
Mart
Good one on the sugar. Likewise with salt. Both have a habituating effect. Me, I grew up on a low-salt regimen (nothing medical, just that mom disliked salty foods), and I can definitely say that most processed foods carry way too much salt. I have no particular like for sweet food either, and therefore I avoid most snack foods, as they're either too sweet or too salty. Yet people look at me strangely when I say so. I can only conclude that this is because they have become habituated to sweet and/or salty food.
Asian diets tend to be strong in spices, which have low nutritional value, but add a lot of taste; the European equivalent is Mediterrannean cuisine, which is also high on spices and low on salt and sugar, and likewise known for its positive effect on weight.
In terms of their physiological effect, sugar and salt are bad. Salt retains water, which makes you heavier, and sugar is a very efficient fuel that must be burned off, lest it gets converted into fat for long-term storage. As with all foodstuffs, in moderation they are essential, but modern Western food contains way more than is necessary.
Mart
Heh. Same here. I was mildly overweight, around 90kg at 1m80, and I rapidly dropped some 7-8 kg due to personal stress, which brought down my appetite. Then I started doing some serious exercise, and my waist size kept dropping; it went from a tight 52 to a 48 (jeans waist 34" to a 31"), yet I gained around 4 kg.
Mart
If farmed fish tastes 'okay', and the alternative is no fish at all due to overfishing, what is the better alternative?
Mart
As much as it pains me to admit as a cat person, but you'd be better of with smarter dogs. More precisely, terriers.
Cats are lousy ratters. A cornered rat will fight, which goes against the basic instinct of most cat breeds. A cat expects an animal in the general shape of a rat to freeze in fear, like a mouse does. Terriers on the other hand are bred to hunt and fight aggressive prey like rats and bigger.
Smarter cats will just lead to accelerating the coming of our feline overlords, reducing us to the role of mobile can openers.
Mart
If you persist in proclaiming things while obviously not having researched them, why should I be nice to you? You are spouting off without knowledge.
If you don't see the difference between EU directives and national laws, and you are too arsed to do some research, or even ask the question, you deserve all the invective you get.
Mart
A very good example, that. That $20 DSP does nothing but a brute force search on certain sound patterns. This is not in any way similar to how humans process speech.
I am not in the camp that says humans have a certain ineffable something that computers can never replicate, but using brute force pattern matching is not the way to find out just how human perception works and reimplementing it in a machine. Chess, BTW, is an example of the opposite: even humans do a brute force search down the decision tree. Sometimes they're trained enough to prune the tree quickly, but that is no different from the common algorithms currently in use.
As Douglas Hofstadter puts it, the most interesting things happen in those 100ms between seeing a picture of your mother and going 'Mom!', and we're nowhere near understanding that problem space enough to implement it in AI. At least, we weren't a couple of years back. I haven't kept up with current developments though.
Mart
No it can't. You didn't read what I wrote, and you don't understand how the EU works. The EU does not pass laws. It is a treaty organisation, and in this context it is the member states that pass the laws. In fact, the most the EU can do is pass Directives, which the member states must implement as laws, in keeping with the various EU treaties.
And as I said, most member states have a justice system that demands warrants before wiretapping, which is in keeping with article 8 of the ECHR. In fact, in Germany the Constitutional Court already struck down invasive investigation procedures and affirmed the citizens' right to privacy. In further fact, given the stance of the European Court of Human Rights, it is quite conceivable that warrantless wiretapping would be struck down as against the ECHR if a member state tried to implement it, should it survive a constitutional challenge internally (or in case of the Netherlands, it is impossible to challenge laws on their constitutionality).
In this political climate, authoritarians don't look at the EU. They prefer to put their money on pliant judges as their rubber stamp. And unfortunately, apart from the guys in Karlsruhe, there are plenty of those judges around.
Read up on how the EU works, and read some of the decisions of the Court of Human Rights, before you spout off, okay?
Mart
Don't be disingenuous. Article 8 states that privacy shall not be infringed except as provided by law, for specific purposes only (among them fighting crime).
The exact formulation of the law is not the remit of the EU, but up to the member states. And given that most of these are representative democracies building on the same philosophers as your precious Founding Fathers, it is no coincidence that in fact, the law in almost all member states requires for warrants to be issued before wiretaps can go through.
Now, that some judges just rubberstamp everything the police holds in front of them, that is a different matter. But in that we're no different from the U.S. with it's Executive-lapdog FISA court.
Mart
I qualified 'sales'. You didn't. And your other data, as far as I can tell, is from a single retailer.
I take it back. You are not a moron. You are a stupid fscking fanboi.
Mart
That's sales for July. This is not the same as marketshare.
Moron.
Mart
How about some backup on that?
Mart
So to summarize your position: you object to people (the government) forcing you to pay for a service, but you expect other people to provide you with a service for free.
Typical.
Mart
Then WTF is Ubuntu doing? Or what are you doing? I have had 64-bit Flash support in Debian for almost a year now. Ubuntu has had two releases to get in sync with their base distro.
Mart
Kindly back up the following two assertions you made:
Did you have a point? Or are you just going to spew empty assertions?
Mart
I use Gartner because it was the Cult of Jobs that was crowing about those numbers recently. Hence my qualifier "the most optimistic for Apple".
Surely you are smart enough to see the implication that I don't necessarily believe those numbers?
Mart
Serious competition? You Apple fanbois get more ridiculous with every JesusPhone story on Slashdot. Even the most optimistic numbers for Apple have Nokia selling almost 5 smartphones for every iPhone sold (source: Gartner).
Mart
All out system crashes may have become rare, but niggling little subsystem crashes that can really make your day on a Windows platform hell still persist. One I personally meet every day, at least twice, is the rdpclip process mysteriously not passing clipboard data out of or into a Terminal Server session anymore.
To say nothing of profile corruption, which still occurs, despite the promise at the release of XP that it would be a thing of the past. And how a corrupt profile can disable acceleration on my video card still baffles me.
Some Windows users take an enormous amount of shit in stride, yet scream bloody murder at every minor issue in a Linux distribution. It puzzles me.
Mart
Here's your dogma for you: at work I got a Dell Latitude D820 with nVidia graphics. I use this laptop quite a bit in the field, so good ACPI support, including S2RAM, was almost mandatory. Imagine my surprise when I read the Release Notes for the nVidia binary blob driver: in order to have working power management, I had to run it on a uniprocessor kernel. That's right, nVidia wanted me to disregard half my CPU just because they can't be arsed to implement power management decently. And can the kernel devs fix this issue? What do you think?
I was glad a colleague who was using an Intel-powered D820 left. I immediately claimed his laptop, and I have been using it without any problems (at least in ACPI space) for nearly 2 years now. Yeah, a GM965 won't run many games. So what? That's only important to the l33t kiddies anyhow.
So no, wanting Free drivers is not dogma. It is pragmatism.
Mart
Erm, I think it is actually the other way around. Look at secure authentication over a network: which project was purely academic, and which project was a typical EU endeavour? And which project is currently in active practical use?
Mart
You know, with every comment like yours, I am starting to believe that 'Idiocracy' is not a satire.
Mart
Because you fucking fanbois never give us any reason to believe otherwise.
Mart
In other words, it lacks Apple Marketing and a slavish band of followers in the grip of the RDF.
I'm very sorry, but I can't find any more of substance in your post.
Mart